There has been a lot of talk about the Hyperloop concept and the amazing transportation system it promises to bring into human lives. This is a high-speed train that would make the trip from San Francisco and Los Angeles in just 30 minutes. The propulsion system was tested a few days ago by the Hyperloop One Company, in the desert outside Las Vegas.
In this same project, another startup called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies also announced that it had licensed a promising technology called Inductrack from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for its own Hyperloop design. If you haven’t yet got a chance to understand the Hyperloop transportation system and the physics behind it, then go through this article and then the video accompanying it. You will surely understand a lot.
It was in 2012, that Elon Musk had made an announcement about a new theoretical transportation method which presented the idea of a capsule that will propelled through a tube at over seven hundred miles an hour. He gathered some great minds from SpaceX and Tesla to create a prototype. Known as Hyperloop, the technology consists of a low pressure tube with capsules that transport at both high and low speeds. This system will run between San Francisco and Los Angeles and complete the journey in 30 minutes. There are certain physics concepts that it uses.
Friction and Hyperloop: Everything has friction, for example a brick lying on the floor has static friction which is the type of friction that keeps it in place, once the brick starts moving it encounters sliding friction. If something is rolling then it has rolling friction which is similar to a car wheel or any wheel in general when something is making constant contact at a particular point with a very small amount of friction. The fluid friction is when anything is moving and in counter resistance with the air for example airplanes or anything that has to move through air at a speed.
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